Brown University
Past NSGP Seminar Series Speakers
September 11, 2003 Andrea Simmons - Brown University
"Development of the Auditory System Across Metamorphosis"
September 18, 2003 Mary Beth Hatten - Rockefeller Univeristy
"New Directions in Neuronal Migration"
September 25, 2003 Sheila Blumstein - Brown University
"Neural Systems Unerlying Speech and Lexical Processing"
October 2, 2003 Philip Lieberman - Brown University
"On the Nature and Evolution of the Neural Bases of Language--With Some Attention to the Basal Ganglia"
October 9, 2003 Seth Horowitz - SUNY Stony Brook
"Vestibular and Circadian System Interactions"
October16, 2003 Albert Fang - University of Illinois
"Hearing in Real World Environments: From Neurobiology to Technology"
October 23, 2003 Robert Malenka - Stanford University
"Synapticplasticity: The Brain's Response to Experience"
October 30, 2003 George Huntley - Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"Role of Cadherin Family of Adhesion Molecules in Synaptic Circuit Development and Plasticity"
November 20, 2003 Bruce Bean - Harvard Medical School
"Pacemaking of Central Neurons"
December 4, 2003 Michael Greenberg - Harvard Medical School
"Signal Transduction Pathways that Regulate Nervous Sytems Development"
December 11, 2003 Randy Buckner - Washington University
"Functional-Anatomic Explorations of Menmory"
January 29, 2004 Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi - Northwestern University
"Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Motor Learnig"
February 5, 2004 Richard Born - Harvard Medical School
"The Integrative Action of the Visual System"
February 12, 2004 Anne Treisman - Princeton University
"Perceiving Objects: The Binding Problem"
February 19, 2004 Jeffrey Lichtman - Washington University
"Monitoring Synaptic Competition in Fluorescent Mice"
February 26, 2004 Michael Fee - MIT
"Time and Sequence i the Brain: Insights From a Songbird"
March 4, 2004Steve Burden - NYU Medical Center
"Neuromuscular Synapse Formation"
March 11, 2004 David Linden - Johns Hopkins University School pf Medicine
"Molecular Substrates of Motor Learning"
March 18, 2004 Jeff Binder - Medical College of Wisconsin
"Neural Correlates of Phonetic Perception"
March 25, 2004 Harvey Swadlow - University of Connecticut
"Feed-Forward Inhibition and Receptive Field Construction in Awake Sensory Neocortex"
April 8, 2004 Rita Balice-Gordon - University of Pennsylvania
"Multi-Directional Signaling at Neuromuscular and Hippocampal Synapses"
April 15, 2004 Paul Worley - Johns Hopkins University
"Immediate Early Genes and Synaptic Plasticity" *CANCELLED"
April 22, 2004 Kay Fite - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Vision and Serotonin: Analysis of Optic Input to the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus"
April 29, 2004 Andrew Baird - King's College London
"Medicinal Biology: A Combinatorial Approach to the Design of CNS Protein and Gene Therapeutics"
May 6, 2004 Elizabeth Gould - Princeton University
"Experience Alters Structural Plasticity in the Adult Brain"
May 13, 2004 Carla Shatz - Harvard Neurobiology
"Brain Waves and Immune Genes in Brain Wiring" *CANCELLED*
September 15, 2005 Sam Wang - Princeton University
"Dissecting Synaptic Learning Rules in the Hippocampus and Cerebellum"
September 29, 2005 Scott Grafton - Dartmouth College
"Substrates of Feedback and Feedforward Learning"
October 6, 2005 Dwight Bergles - Johns Hopkins University
"Synaptic Communication Between Neurons and Glial Cells in the Mammalian Brain"
October 20, 2005 Holly Cline - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Experience Regulates Multiple Aspects of Visual System Development in Vivo"
October 27, 2005 Elly Nedivy - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Dynamic Remodeling of Dendritic Arbors in Non-Pyramidal Neurons of Adult Cortex"
November 3, 2005 Tommaso Poggio - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"A Theory of the Feedforward Path in the Ventral Stream of Visual Cortex"
December 1, 2005 Leslie Griffith - Brandeis University
"In Vivo Regulation of CaMKII Autophosphorylation and Its Role in Behavior"
December 8, 2005 Stephen Lisberger - University of California, San Francisco
"From Vision to Action"
December 15, 2005 Paul Hagerman - University of California, Davis
"FXTAS: AN Older Face of the Fragile X Gene"
February 2, 2006 David Sheinberg - Brown University
"From Seeing to Knowing: Exploring the Neural Dynamics of Visual Recognition"
February 9, 2006 Luiz Pessoa - Brown University
"Emotional Perception: Visual Attention, Awareness, and Perceptual Decision Making"
February 16, 2006 Markus Meister - Harvard Medical School
"Retinal Processing of Natural Motion"
February 23, 2006 Tara White - Brown University
"Imaging D-amphetamine Effects in Healthy Volunteers"
March 9, 2006 Marvin Chun - Yale University
"Attentional Modulation of Visual Memory in Human Cortex"
March 16, 2006 Kimberly McAllister - University of California, Davis
"Stop and Go to the Synapse: Pre and Postsynaptic Precursor Trafficking During Synaptogenesis"
March 23, 2006 Rick Huganir - Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
April 6, 2006 Nelson Spruston - Northwestern University
"Dendritic Excitability, Synaptic Integration, and Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus"
April 13, 2006 Nancy Kopell - Boston University
"Rhythms of the Nervous System: Where Do They Come From? What Are They Good For?"
April 20, 2006 Cori Bargmann - Rockefeller University
April 27, 2006 Elliott Albers - Georgia State
"Neuropeptides and the Regulation of Social Behavior"
May 4, 2006 Marie Filbin - Hunter College